Mystic River Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
The river has many depths. Let it wash over you.
Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.
| Sean Penn | Jimmy Markum |
| Kevin Bacon | Sean Devine |
| Laurence Fishburne | Sgt. Whitey Powers |
| Marcia Gay Harden | Celeste Boyle |
| Tim Robbins | Dave Boyle |
| Kevin Chapman | Val Savage |
| Laura Linney | Annabeth Markum |
| Tom Guiry | Brendan Harris |
| Emmy Rossum | Katie Markum |
| Spencer Treat Clark | Silent Ray Harris |
| Andrew Mackin | John O'Shea |
| Adam Nelson | Nick Savage |
| Robert Wahlberg | Kevin Savage |
| Jenny O'Hara | Esther Harris |
| John Doman | Driver |
| Clint Eastwood |
8.00 out of 10 (65864 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A riveting actor's tour de force
posted on 26 Aug 2009As if it was not yet obvious, this movie clinches Sean Penn's ascent to godhood. He _is_ Jimmy Markum, the hard man struck down by the murder of his beloved daughter and pulled back into a darkness he thought he'd left behind. Tim Robbins is at least as good in his portrayal of Dave Boyle, the poor soul tormented by childhood trauma he has never been able to overcome. Kevin Bacon comes off a little flat, but the supporting roles - including Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney, and Tom Guiry are all very well executed.Some commenters have criticized the direction for being slow, but they are mistaking deliberate pacing with dawdling. This isn't an action movie and should not be directed and edited as such. The film proceeds exactly as it should given its nature. I loved the way scenes atmospherically dissolve into another, something Eastwood learned well from Don Siegel, who was something of a mentor earlier on in Clint's career.If you are a movie-goer who appreciates a movie that isn't just non-stop explosions, car chases, and fight scenes I think you'll find much to sink your teeth into here. 9/10
Degrading to victims of childhood abuse - lousy
posted on 26 Aug 2009Spoiler Alert Performance wise, not what I've come to expect from Sean Penn. Clint Eastwood should be ashamed of himself. One of the most powerful themes running through the movie was childhood sexual abuse and Clint treats this theme like so much garbage. Throughout the movie, the friends of the abused child (Tim Robbins),(now grown up) have abandoned him. He is referred to as "a basket case" and "damaged goods." And in the end, he is murdered and his death is treated as "no big deal, he was messed up anyway." Clint Eastwood and Tim Robbins should be ashamed of their insensitive portrayal of an abused child. Kevin Bacon delivered a ridiculous milk-toast portrayal of a cop and supposed friend. Do not waste your time and if you were sexually abused as a child, this movie will be very triggering - do not watch it.
Eastwood's next Oscar hit after "Unforgiven"
posted on 24 Aug 2009Eastwood's big Oscar hit after "Unforgiven", that other masterpiece directed by Dirty Harry himself. "Mystic River" is based on the bestselling novel by Dennis Lehane and it has an incredible cast. The main leads are for Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon. Furthermore we have Laurence "Morpheus" Fishburne, Laura Linney and Marcia Gay Harden. The movie itself is very dark and sober without much music. The story is brilliantly written and the acting is without any doubt superb.I'm glad Sean Penn finally won an Academy Award, he's a brilliant actor and he certainly deserves the recognition. Tim Robbins was good as well, but I think Benicio del Toro should have won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance in "21 Grams" was much more superior to Robbins' performance in "Mystic River". Anyway, that's just what I think. Kevin Bacon was excellent as well and he is one of the most underrated actors of his generation. Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney were good as usual.Although I very much enjoyed this movie, it didn't exactly turned out to be the masterpiece I was expecting. But that's maybe because this was only the first time I watched it. Anyway, I'm still looking forward to see Eastwood's masterpiece of this year: "Million Dollar Baby". But this movie is absolutely worth seeing as well.8,5/10
My opinion
posted on 20 Aug 2009This movie in my opinion was not good at all. Too much use of the "f" word, too many psychotic people and made no sense at all. This movie may have been better with a different cast...the only redeeming quality of the entire movie was the opportunity to stare at Kevin Bacon for two hours straight. I slept for 5 minutes of this movie on my boyfriends shoulder I was so disturbed.
tragedy...
posted on 20 Aug 2009***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Its really interesting to see how the 3 wives of the main characters all play poignant significant role right at the end of the movie...Throughout this movie we are lead and seen to beleive that Kevin Bacon's character (Sean) is a decent, above board cop...The scene where Laura Linney' character(Annabeth) becomes this grotesque character who when she finds out her husband had killed the Tim Robbins character (Dan) by accident, quite frankly turns into this grotesque lustful wife who thrives on her husbands (Sean Penns - Jimmy) power to protect her family and kids.. Its quite a change or character for her. It feeds into Jimmy's ego.Are we really meant to beleive that Kevin Bacon's character (Sean) would really turn away from the Dans killer (Jimmy)? Surely not, that would be out of character. What we next see is that Sean's wife out of the blue calls him, and wants to be back with him and his daughter.In the end we Sean Penn, and Kevin Bacon happilly with their wives...Is that real? Is the real tragedy, that Kevin Bacon's wife and child don't really come back home... Its just a wishful dream.
the final 15 minutes left me saying....
posted on 18 Aug 2009huh? I agree with about everyone that the acting was great and definitely deserved awards. But it was too easy to guess who committed the murder. And I am never good at predicting twists, but I got this one right. But the real meat of the movie has to do with the confrontation between Jimmy and Dave at the end. Those were some tense moments.Now to the spoilers: What was up with the final 15 minutes. First of all, all the people in this were nuts. But, then out of no where Jimmy's wife turns into the craziest of them all. Her husband confesses he's a cold blooded killer and all she can do is say she's glad she's the wife of a king. Well, early in the film it implied at one Jimmy was a small time hood, but when he served a short term in prison, he changed his life. It shows him running a store. He has some shady friends, but the movie does not imply he was still involved with any of that. Then his wife talks about him being a king. Like he is at the top of the criminal ladder in their community.Then, why doesn't Dave's wife want Jimmy arrested? And why does Sean not arrest Jimmy or at least Sean's partner, the only sane person in the whole film. Jimmy practically confesses he offed Dave and Just Ray, but Sean doesn't do anything. Then at the end while watching the parade, Sean mockingly shoots Jimmy, why? FINAL VERDICT: It was pretty good till the very end. The nonsense of the final 15 minutes ruined it for me. But, I recommend it just to watch the great acting performances.
Long, drawn out film with characters I didn't give a crap about
posted on 18 Aug 2009I have no idea why this movie has been given the recognition it has- here's why:- Poor acting (except from Fishburne and a few scenes with that kid from the Sandlot) - Poor writing (this was the same predictable movie I have seen 1,000 times.I know it was based on a book- my point is to find a more original storyline) - Poor editing (what on earth was that music?! Anyone? Anyone? Music/Sound has a HUGE impact on a film- look at Aronofsky's "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream")If you haven't seen the movie, don't. You won't care one bit about anything that happens because nothing was developed well enough to entice an audience. Save yourself the 2+ hours.
not oscar worthy
posted on 16 Aug 2009Personally, I was not impressed with this film. Yes, it was beautifully filmed, filled with symbolism and parallels, and the script was very well adapted to the screen. Also, the acting was good.. particularly the dramatic Sean Penn crying scene, and Tim Robbins' silent sympathetic acting. But I just feel that critics are in love with Clint Eastwood and therefore give him too much credit. What was the point of the film?? I for one haven't read the book so maybe I should do that before asking this, but what was the underlying message of the movie---that good guys always lose and that in lower middle class neighborhoods in Boston the ex-cons rule the town while secretly offing the people that get in their way? Sure, it may show the corruptness and multi-layeredness (if that's a word) of the world, but I don't think that it had a really understandable POINT. Those people had no value system--no morals! Maybe I'm just missing the message but I just don't think this film deserves an oscar or golden globe nod at all. Get over Clint Eastwood, he's not that fabulous a director.. sure Bridges of Madison County was all right.. but he made Space Cowboys, for crying out loud.
Boring River
posted on 16 Aug 2009What was so great about the movie? People who liked the movie, seemed to like the screenplay and the acting. People who hated the movie, seemed to hate the storyline. I agree with the latter.The beginning is a ripoff of sleepers. A bad one. Sleepers makes you understand the behaviour of the adult characters. I just can't believe, that no one saw this coming. I have read about people on the IMDb who foresaw the most unusual twists. For me it was perfectly clear who did it. The last 45 minutes were even worse then. You should see more German Krimi's. The one who did it is always the one who gets about 2 minutes of airtime. But even there they give a acceptable reason for it. And what did the storyline of Kevin's wife have to do with the movie? Who was she, and why should i care?All in all a waste of time.
There are two kinds of movies audiences
posted on 10 Aug 2009One wants to escape into a pretend world.The other wants to see stories that make them think about theirs.This movie is for the latter, the former will be sorely disappointed.What looks from the onset like an unfortunate sequence of personal tragedies intended to tug on the sympathetic heartstrings of the former begins to wear thin and tedious about half way through as the all too obvious tragic outcome begins to roll downhill like a snowball gathering momentum.But like a well constructed drama the denouement (thats the comedown after the climax where the meaning of the whole thing gets explained) hits first like a splash of cold water and then delivers the blow to the gut that left me reeling with recognition.Not too many movies out of Hollywood lately have hit with that much moral force AFTER the ostensible climax. Usually you get some lamers making some clichés pretending to explain what needed no explanation because it was all too trite from the beginning. This one actually set off the old light bulb with the "Oh THAT'S what the storyteller was trying to get at with this story!"This story tries to make similar moral judgments about ancient ingrained traditions of morality and justice in a microcosm of 3 families that Scorcese tried to portray in Gangs of New York on the grand scale.
Simply a bad movie.
posted on 06 Aug 2009Mystic River is a bad movie. There is no denying it. It is a poor movie in all its glorius aspects. The script is nothing to write home about and tends to drag and leave important aspects of the story untouched. It is shallow and never delves into the true psychological nature of the characters and their situautions. The directing is also, as I have sad before, bad. Eastwood does little to entice the audience and will go down in history as the only director ever to pull a bad performance out of Sean Penn. As for acting, well I have already mentioned Seany-boy, but as for the rest: Tim Robbins is simply horrible, Laurence Fishburne is poorly utilized and Kevin Bacon... well, lets just say that if you have the previous three actors in a movie and Kevin Bacon comes out on top with the best performance, you got a heck-of-a-lot of problems. Unless you go to the movies to pay no attention to the movie entirely, skip this one.
The most beautiful Eastwood's movie
posted on 06 Aug 2009What have I liked in this movie? First, the beginning: three friends who play in the streets, as you can see in several American movies: different boys, in more than one aspect; only one is poor, his family is needy, and this will cost him dear! After a quarter, teen age it's yet over: the three boys are adult, each one has followed his destiny; but everybody remember the last time they had played together, a day which has marked their lives forever. Second: the perfect development of investigations you can feel involved in which, thanks above all to actors' skills, very exciting in each situation, wisely interlaced without carelessness. Third, the touching distressing unforeseeable ending, making of this movie a masterpiece which can't miss in a cinematography culture! I also liked musics: right in each moment, good to transmit the same emotions that characters are feeling. I thing "Mystic river" it's a movie that can changes your life, appertaining you forever.
OK
posted on 04 Aug 2009The main problem I had with Mystic River was that it had trouble deciding if it was a murder mystery or a film about human nature. The movie's strength is when it is focusing on its characters and the decisions they make based on trust and instinct. More importantly, it is about the path one takes after making these decisions. However, there is too much time focused on the whodunit part of the movie. Maybe I concentrated too much on the mystery and a second viewing will change my mind. But to be fair, once I was pretty confident with who I thought the murderer was, it was early on in the movie. I had enough time to understand the film's meaning and to take in the performances without trying to play detective. It just never reeled me in. Eastwood does a good job of providing a depressing atmosphere and Penn does deliver a fine performance. The rest of the cast holds its own and there is nothing offensive about the movie. However, with all of the hype surrounding the movie, I came out of the theatre thinking it was just okay. I think that Mystic River would have been more powerful and worthy of its praise if it had stuck with the evaluation of its characters rather than dedicating so much time to being a mystery. 7/10.
Plays like a serious reality check.
posted on 04 Aug 2009Sad and deeply heart-breaking odyssey in which three men (in Boston)who seem to have partially recovered from witnessing one terrible incident as childhood pals are banded together when a loved one is found murdered in a park. The performances here are terrific - especially Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, both of whom have a very good chance of earning Oscar nominations. Also, the direction that director Clint Eastwood (who also handled the musical score) takes the movie in leaves you with second thoughts about what happens in the story. Overall, "Mystic River" makes you think about the decisions that people make in life and how they have to live with it. This movie plays like a serious reality check and has to be one of the best films this year.
Trite, nonsensical garbage.
posted on 04 Aug 2009Melodramatic over the top direction. Eastwood doesn't even seem to know what story he is trying to tell. Tim Robbins gets it in a Three's Company-esquire misunderstanding because apparently he isn't capable of saying, "Here, let me show you where the body is." The ending is to a completely different movie. "We're going to run this town." What? And the finger gunpoint by Kevin Bacon. Wait what the hell did I just watch? Apparently, from Robbins performance, being abused as a child makes you mentally retarded. Abused children are never again able to speak in complete sentences or look people in the eye. I wait, I get it he's acting! Brilliant!
Good movie but cant understand the hype.
posted on 29 Jul 2009Mystic River is good drama and superb acting but not exactly the masterpiece some claim it to be. Sean Penn was spectacular other than that nothing out of the ordinary in this film.SPOILER ALERT:Why do most people think Sean lets Jimmy get away with murder ? The whole scene at the end where he points his finger in a gun like manner pretty much implies "Im gonna get you". Why didnt he do it earlier ? As in like as soon as he found out he killed Dave ? Simple, he is probably allowing him to grief.7/10
There, but for the grace of God, go I.
posted on 27 Jul 2009Clint Eastwood seems to like irony, and how well he tells us about it! In Mystic River, as in Unforgiven, we see damaged characters doing their best to cope with their memories of the past. Three childhood friends were scarred by an incident that occurred while they were playing street hockey. Chance brings them all back together again about thirty years later, basically to show us all the pall that childhood incident cast on the rest of their lives. Ordinary reality is distorted by their respective consciences, and we see how each one struggles to come to terms with the memory that will not go away.This is not a feel good movie, but it is a good movie. It is a movie about what happens when life has dealt us the Queen of Spades. There are no heroes here, only people doing the best they can at what they know. And in that sense there is some nobility to these characters, as the wife of one claims toward the end. There, but for the grace of God, go I.
A good movie - spoiled by a kitschy ending
posted on 25 Jul 2009A good detective story, well acted and gripping. What a shame the last few minutes are as kitschy and syrupy as one can get Although pretty long, the movies does not seem so due to a well thought out plot - until it collapses in schmaltz
BRILLANT...NOT !!!
posted on 28 Aug 2009I really wanted to like this movie but, this movie is so mediocre that is even hard to write a review about it. What the fuss is all about is beyond me. The performances are mediocre at best, with the exception of Tim Robbins which puts out a great one. Starting with Marcia Gay Harding, when they get into the 'vampire' dialog it is hard not to laugh at her. Then there is Laura Liney, why she thinks that people in Boston speak like southerners??? Then there is the editing, this movie just does not flow right, I can't put my finger on it other than it is all wrong. Then the music, it reaches crescendos at the most inapropriate times and then we have a couple of blues tunes courtesy of Kyle Eastwood that should have been left in the trash bin.I was really psyched to see this movie, I had read the book and eventhough the book is not well written, the basis of the story is very good and I thought it would make a great movie, ohhh but leave to the screenwriters of this dog to screw that up, even the ending is all wrong. In the book there is a real reason about why the girl is killed, in the movie they change it to a bogus reason, read the spoiler at the end. Do yourself a favor, skip this turkey. This is 5/10 and I am being generous.SPOILERThe reason the girl is killed is because the mute brother of her boyfriend does not want his brother to marry her and leave the house since he is very attached to him, thus he kills her. In the movie they make it an accidental shooting and they top it off with an accidental beating????????????? Talk about extreme PC towards mute people.